Canon Michael's reflection for today.
Readings: https://universalis.com/mass.htm (click on the correct day on the right hand column)
The Gospel today is of the famous story of the woman found guilty of adultery and threatened with stoning by a mob. Christ says: "let him who is without sin cast the first stone". The woman's life is saved.
We love the gentleness and mercy of God as he tells the woman "to go and sin no more".
Sin is terrible, an offence against God, harming not only ourselves but often others too. There are times when we only acknowledge our sins after having been found out, like the woman in today's Gospel. Is it true that we only learn humility after being humiliated? Well possibly. I only know that God to whom nothing is hidden, who knows every one of our sins, desires only that I come to appreciate his Love and mercy and gentleness and that he wants me to live my life in integrity and "sin no more". To live life to the full and not to live in fear.
Scholars say that this story is not actually part of John's Gospel but a much later interpolation of an old story. Whatever the facts I am glad it's in the Gospel. It's a brilliant story.
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